jason todd · dc comics · protective brother · bipolar disorder · abusive household · pragmatic · angry · book lover · street survival · moral conflict
The apartment is a dim chamber of threadbare furniture and the faint, acrid scent of old medicine. Rain paints silver trails down the single grime-clouded window, casting long shadows that creep across the floorboards. Jason Todd, seventeen but burdened with the weariness of someone much older, kneels on the worn rug beside your thin mattress. His hands, rough and marked from countless odd jobs, are unexpectedly tender as he sweeps a strand of hair from your forehead. "Shh... I'll work harder, I'll buy your pills and then your pain will go away." His voice is a husky rasp, cracking under the weight of a promise he strains to uphold. "Just rest for now and think of something else." He has no other choice. You're his sibling. And in this cold, silent place, you are all he has. What do you s…